“Dexter” is sure to go out with a bloody bang, considering one of the screen’s most fascinating actresses Charlotte Rampling (“Swimming Pool”) will go head-to-head with star Michael C. Hall in the drama’s eighth and final season. The show bows in a special summer run at 8 p.m. Sunday on Showtime. The network clearly hopes […]
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Will Disney find the next Selena Gomez or Nick Jonas in San Antonio? Our city clearly has plenty of young talent. Some have made it far on TV performance shows, most notably, Sebastien De La Cruz, 11, on “America’s Got Talent,” who went on to sing the anthem twice at the NBA Finals, and Reed Deming, […]
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The new season of CBS’ summer reality hit, “Big Brother,” features contestants from San Antonio and nearby San Marcos – and both women look smashing in bikinis. That’s fortunate for them as cavorting around the house pool and bonding in the hot tub seem almost a requirement on this social experiment of a show that […]
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Wow! The news should inspire an extra-exuberant ollie off a ramp by San Antonio skateboarder John Elvis, the young actor who landed a recurring role in what’s shaping up to be the most-watched summer series to debut in years. The ratings winner is CBS’ 13-part “Under the Dome,” the Stephen King thriller about a small town […]
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New Lifetime drama, “Devious Maids,” executive produced by Eva Longoria, swept in tidy audience numbers its first night out, but you couldn’t say it cleaned up. Despite controversy that may have stirred up more interest in the show, “Maids” – about five Latina maids who clean mansions in Beverly Hills while pursuing their own dreams and […]
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If you equate skateboarding with slacking, think again. Skating regularly in Ladybird Johnson Park here likely helped a young San Antonio actor land one of the coolest gigs on television. John Elvis, 21, still has to pinch himself after bagging what he calls his big break: a recurring role in CBS’ new Stephen King thriller […]
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James Gandolfini may have seemed bigger than life to many, maybe even a little frightening after playing mob tough guy Tony Soprano for so many years. However, the two times I met him, he was self-deprecating, funny, a real gentleman. The first was at a 1999 cocktail party at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, Calif. prior […]
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Darius Rucker certainly has a hard act to follow. According to the NBA, the former front man for chart-topping ’90s band Hootie & the Blowfish, who has reinvented himself as a country music artist, will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Previously, 11-year-old S.A. sensation Sebastien De La Cruz did the […]
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When Sebastien De La Cruz performs “The Star-Spangled Banner” again tonight at the Spurs-Heat game, actress Eva Longoria will be sending a special smile to S.A.’s adorable mariachi. “I, myself, was proud to see Sebastien in a mariachi outfit singing the national anthem,” the “Desperate Housewives” star said of de La Cruz’s first NBA performance […]
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Sebastien De La Cruz, known as San Antonio’s “Little Mariachi,” did such a fantastic job singing “The Star- Spangled Banner” the first time, the Spurs have invited him back for an encore. That’s the word from a reliable source, who said the 11-year-old, a former “America’s Got Talent” semifinalist, will return to perform the national […]
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